Like unto a sparrow-hawk, I am flying away from this

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Like unto a sparrow-hawk, I am flying away from this by Omar Khayyam

Like unto a sparrow-hawk, I am flying away from this
world of mysteries, hoping to lift myself to a higher
world; but, fallen, here below, and finding no one worthy
to share my secret thoughts, I go out through the door
by which I entered.

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